Circassian mythology

The Adygues Where Circassians or Circassians, are a people of the northwest Caucasus. their myths and legends are gathered in the mythology circus.

The Adyguans emerged around the X^e century, as a linguistic and cultural entity which was never politically united. Their lack of unity reduced their influence in the region and their ability to fight against frequent raids by the Huns, Avars, Alans, Pechenegs, Cumans, Khazars and Mongols. From the XVI^e century they passed under Ottoman protectorate but preserved their autonomy, their local customs and their social structure in clans (tlapq).

This absence of unity will cost their independence to the Adygeans; their territory will be gradually transferred to the Cossacks of the Russian Empire as a reward for their support for Catherine II (1764-1775), in the context of the clashes with the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 18th century.^e century and during the first half of the XIX^e century.

After the Crimean War, the Russians attacked the Chechens and the Ingushetians and then subjugated Imam Shamil in the eastern Caucasus in 1859, after which they began, in 1864, to pacify the Adygeans as the Western newspapers wrote: it was a question, in fact, of sedentarizing them by force, of confiscating their herds and their lands for the benefit of the Russian colonists and of deporting them to the Ottoman Empire, of deporting in Central Asia or to massacre the recalcitrant and rebellious.

May 21, 1864 is the date chosen by the Adygeans (or Circassians) to commemorate, throughout the world, the tragic anniversary of their expulsion from the Caucasus by the Russians, essentially concerning the Circassian peoples (Adygeans), the Ubykhs, the Abkhazians , exile which will begin in 1864 and which will mainly end in 1867.

• Habza tradition
• The art of War
• The myth of Prometheus
• Myths of the Circassian Forest
• Hantse Guashe
• The cycle of Satanaya
• The myth of Abriskil
• The epic of the Nartes
• Adyghe Xabze